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India and South Africa will seek to improve ties during President Cyril Ramaphosa’s upcoming visit to Delhi as the chief guest for the Republic Day amid efforts from both sides to strengthen cooperation.

Aid workers say military aircraft and trucks have been seen arriving in Rakhine since early January - raising fears conflict could intensify once again in the state. The group's rise threatens to further undermine Suu Kyi's hopes of securing peace across Myanmar.

The operation has led to a major revelation: J&K-based outfits are procuring weapons from gunrunners based in Delhi and neighbouring states as there has been a shortage of small arms used in target killings.

TROY, New York (AP) — A day after she jumped into the presidential race from a glimmering Manhattan television studio, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand returned Wednesday to her upstate New York hometown to preview a campaign that is expected to put gender front and center.

The Indian Army will “more than avenge” the killing of two of its junior commissioned officers (JCOs) in sniping action by Pak troops in Jumgund area of Kupwara district of north Kashmir last Friday. “It will be at a time and place of our choosing, like we have retaliated to such sniping operations in the past,” said an officer.

Two AK assault rifles, a hand grenade, four magazines with 256 rounds and 59 rounds of sniper ammunition were seized during a joint operation by the Army and local police in the Billawar block early Saturday, a defence spokesman said.